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Aug 04, 2017By Christopher Roberts

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Call It Love Due Out August 4 via Jagjaguwar

May 16, 2017By Christopher Roberts

Briana Marela has announced a new album, Call It Love, and shared its first single, "Quit." Call It Love is due out August 4 via Jagjaguwar. It's the follow-up to her debut for the label, 2015's All Around Us. More

"Our First 100 Days" Will Include a New Song Every Day for the First 100 Days of Donald Trump's Presidency

Apr 14, 2017By Christopher Roberts

"Our First 100 Days" is an anti-President Donald Trump project. The good folks behind the "30 Days, 30 Songs" anti-Trump campaign during the election have teamed up with Secretly Group for "Our First 100 Days." More

The Sasquatch! Music Festival has revealed the lineup for their 2016 festival, their 15th year. Once again it will be going down Memorial Day Weekend (May 27 - 30) at the Gorge Amphitheater in Quincy, Washington. It's a stacked lineup, including The Cure, M83, Sufjan Stevens, Grimes, Florence and the Machine, Wolf Alice, Julia Holter, Jamie xx, Caribou, Yeasayer, Savages, Kurt Vile, Mac DeMarco, and others.

Issue 54 Also Includes Interviews with New Order, Garbage, Foals, Beirut, Jesse Eisenberg, Low, FFS, Destroyer, Wolf Alice, Tamaryn, the Casts of Fear the Walking Dead and Wet Hot American Summer, and More

Interviews

Marela on Streaming Music, the Election, Bad Dates, Star Wars, and Gun Control

Jan 28, 2016By Mark Redfern

For Under the Radar's 13th annual Artist Survey we emailed some of our favorite artists a few questions relating to 2015. We asked them about their favorite albums of the year and their thoughts on various notable 2015 news stories involving either the music industry or world events, as well as some quirkier personal questions. Here are some answers from Briana Marela. After self-releasing two small albums, in 2012 Marela was emailed by frequent Sigur Rós collaborator and producer Alex Somers, who had been passed some of Marela's material by one of his friends. Somers produced and recorded Marela's latest album, All Around Us, in Iceland.

Voices in a Room

Jan 14, 2016By Mike Hilleary

Briana Marela doesn't require a lot of space. Wearing a floral print top with her dark hair still damp from her morning shower, the 25-year-old Seattle musical artist is sitting in her "room," a makeshift, cordoned-off spot that serves as both her sleeping and work space in the apartment she shares with five other girls. More

The Quiet One

Sep 04, 2015By Mike Hilleary

The daughter of a Peruvian father and American mother, Marela grew up listening to a mix of traditional folk music. Though she took up the acoustic guitar and began writing her own songs in high school, it wasn't until Marela presented and played a four song EP for a senior project that her classmates even became aware of her extracurricular interest. More

Reviews

Call It Love

Jagjaguwar

Aug 03, 2017By Zach Hollwedel

Briana Marela, who released her first record with Jagjaguar in 2015 (the haunting and beautiful All Around Us), imbues her second studio album under the same label, Call It Love, with the recognizable ambient, echoing style that made All Around Us so memorable. More